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PR… PRweb … PRBoost

By Affiliate Profit Center • Feb 23rd, 2007 • Category: Affiliate News, Authority Sites, Search Engine Marketing

When I’m looking for ideas to blog about, I often head over to PRweb and have a look at what’s new in my niche. You see, the use of press releases is an excellent way to get a buzz going about a new website or a new service or a give-away etc… So, PRweb is an excellent place to keep abreast of your Niche. Now, something else to consider, even though Press Releases have been around long before the web was in existence, the web did bring something new to the world of Press Releases…

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Trackbacks…
One aspect of PRweb that is often overlooked is the fact that many of the press releases will give you a trackback if you reference them on your blog. I’ve used this tactic quite a bit and see a reasonably steady stream of traffic coming from these press releases for sometimes weeks after I make the post.

Further, a look at the source code of these trackbacks reveals that PRweb is NOT using the fabled “NoFollow” tag. Which means, Google CAN follow these links and CAN give you a PR (as in Page Rank) boost. What’s more, PRweb is an authority site with a homepage Page Rank of seven; make no mistake, this is one of the trusted sites that Google spiders everyday!

Now for a real-world example:
Here’s an example of a I received for a post I did back in December:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb486905.htm

The PRweb page above has a of 4, if you follow the link through to my post you’ll see that my page has a PR 3 – most of the Page Rank has to be from my PRweb trackback since my Homepage is only a PR 2 :( .

…That’s all I’m saying on this one, use the technique if you want, tell your friends about it… Just please …speak kindly of me ;) .

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42 Responses »

  1. PlugIM.com on February 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm:

    PR… PRWeb… PRBoost…

    Here’s a pr boosing tactic that no one else is talking about……

  2. VladTheAffiliate on February 25th, 2007 at 3:11 am:

    I followed the link to PRWeb and then back to your article…. Your article does not seam to have a link to that press release. I am just curious which url did you ping? The one that is usually provided at the end of press releases?

  3. Affiliate Profit Center on February 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am:

    Vlad,

    I just pinged the trackback url of the press release - the link in my post goes to the tool that the press release is talking about.

  4. VladTheAffiliate on February 25th, 2007 at 12:23 pm:

    Yes I notcied that. I tried to do the same with one of my blogs. But about 12 hours later there is no indication on the press release page to acknowledge the ping from my site.

  5. Recall Guy on February 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm:

    I’m going to give this a shot, but the blog I want to use is Blogger. I know how to ping a site with my WP blogs, but I don’t see an option with this one.

    Anyone know anything about Blogger? Vlad, do you have an update? Did you use the Trackback URL at the end of the PR?

  6. VladTheAffiliate on February 25th, 2007 at 7:56 pm:

    Well I have tried to ping both the trackback url as well as the permalink (just in case). I did it well over 20 hours ago and still do not see trackback to my website. I see there possible answers. Either there is something drastically wrong with my site, I did not do it correctly or the trackbacks are going through a sort of an editorial review. At this time can’t either confirm or deny. But I trust Dave on this one, his post is a definite proof to me, I just need to figure out how to do it correctly.

  7. Affiliate Profit Center on February 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pm:

    Vlad,

    It takes time, do several and wait a few days, you’ll get some good trackbacks.

    Also, it’s the weekend - it’s possible that noone is checking them now.

    Let me know how you make out.

    Dave

  8. VladTheAffiliate on February 26th, 2007 at 1:09 pm:

    Dave Thanks. I tried again from my blog with a post about Wordtracker, PRWeb gave me tackback right away, but this time I actually included a link to the release itself in the post.

  9. Blog Marketing Videos And Social Marketing Tips To Get Free Targeted Traffic on March 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 am:

    Get Great High PR Links Easily…

    Easy high PR backlinks - must read linking tactic!

    ……

  10. Maki on March 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm:

    This is a great tip! … Thanks again, Dave.

  11. Steve / EndGame Public Relations on April 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 pm:

    This is a great idea. PRWeb releases also have a way to comment. I wonder if it would work with comments too…

    Hmmmmm….

    Steve Mullen
    Media Relations and SEO PR Blog

  12. morganusvitus on April 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pm:

    The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

  13. Andy Beard on April 7th, 2007 at 7:34 pm:

    I grabbed myself a PR Web trackback link a couple of days ago, on the post about BlogCatalog

  14. syed on April 9th, 2007 at 5:42 am:

    hey
    Any other site like prweb which provide trackback links ?

  15. Peter on May 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 am:

    I’m thinking about the other end, offering a trackback url to one of my posts. I have a wordpress blog and have a “trackback url” I assume that someone is supposed to click that to get my trackback url, but if I click it i get no url, just reloads the page.

    I have tried it on your blog and get the same, no trackback url. how do I get a trackback url onto my blog?

  16. Affiliate Profit Center on May 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 am:

    Peter,

    You just have to copy the trackback url (right click and copy url), then paste that url into the trackback area when you make your post.

    Your blog software will ping that address and the trackbackee will be notified.

    Dave

  17. Perfect Wealth Formula on May 6th, 2007 at 1:33 am:

    Great tip! Thanks for that, I’m going to give it a try.

    Daniel

  18. Compagnies on June 6th, 2007 at 10:50 am:

    Thanks a lot for this great tip !

  19. Shopautodotca Seocontest on June 10th, 2007 at 7:42 pm:

    What is especially good about this is that you can create posts containing interesting information for your readers, all the while getting good links to your site. I have employed this on a few occasions, but only when the content is applicable to what I am writing about on my blog.

  20. Resell Ebooks on June 12th, 2007 at 7:24 am:

    Really good tip, many thanks!

  21. Web Traffic on June 12th, 2007 at 7:27 am:

    This sounds good. I’m going to try it out now. Thanks for the tip.

  22. Internet Marketing Tools on June 13th, 2007 at 3:41 am:

    That’s some great information!

    I hope that PRWeb will not start nofollow trackback links like a lot of other sites.

    Anyway, it works as long as it works and it’s free (except for the time spent making the trackback post).

  23. Fedora Linux FAQ on June 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pm:

    That’s a great tip, thank you!

  24. Artem on July 6th, 2007 at 7:45 am:

    Wow.. it’s a new way of getting High PR links from social services. Thank you for it.

  25. perde on July 29th, 2007 at 11:45 am:

    Well, thank you for the info I kind of don’t think PR matters as much as it used to be. Trust does.

  26. Konstantin on July 31st, 2007 at 8:36 am:

    Could we get many trackbacks from it? Or only one?

  27. meet2go.com on August 19th, 2007 at 6:26 pm:

    Did it help with your traffic?

  28. Outdoor Kitchen Guy on August 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 am:

    Hi ,
    Followed to your blog from the authority black book. This is awesome. Will try and report results.
    Thanks

  29. Hector Sanchez on August 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm:

    Thanks for such a great resource, thanks for the tip!

  30. Evil on September 7th, 2007 at 8:10 pm:

    I’ve been reading a lot of blogger blogs for a while now, and this is the first time I’ve come across this this tip. It’s a great one!

  31. Self Hypnosis on September 15th, 2007 at 4:11 am:

    This is indeed a great way to boost link popularity. I picked up this one from ASC forum some time ago. Let’s just hope spammers don’t catch up with it.

  32. Psychedelic on September 17th, 2007 at 7:58 am:

    Hmmm, i had never thought about this…. Nice one!

    - Thanks for the free SEO course too!

  33. Internet Marketing Blog on October 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am:

    Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to give it a try.

  34. Work At Home Guide on October 24th, 2007 at 6:03 am:

    Dave,

    Thanks for this great tips. I will to try it out now. Thanks again.

  35. Home Study Courses on November 23rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm:

    I’ve been trying to use trackbacks on PRWEB and they never work. I just get an xml error message

  36. Ahmed on November 30th, 2007 at 6:55 pm:

    Thanks David for such awesome hints, I will try this out. :)

  37. buja on December 31st, 2007 at 3:25 am:

    thanks for the tips,, its very important for me

  38. buja on December 31st, 2007 at 3:26 am:

    thanks for the info

  39. zeitgeist on January 6th, 2008 at 1:27 pm:

    This is great. Thanks for the info. I’ve been trying and it really works.

  40. Marvin on January 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm:

    I’ve read about using a press release as part of link building but I’ve never tried it. I’ve been focused on article marketing, which I assumed accomplished much the same thing. Perhaps it’s coincidence that I just signed up with a PR distributor and have been looking at some various ways to use press releases in my over all strategy. The information provided in this article is certainly useful. Thanks much

  41. FastMoneyMan on January 30th, 2008 at 11:31 pm:

    Yes, a great tip indeed! A favourite for quick boosts.

  42. Jason on April 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am:

    very nice post. I like the idea of the track back. I would have thought Google would have counted it as a reciprocal, I guess not than.

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